Event Title
Session Four: Restoring the Credibility of the Department of Justice: Lessons from the Service of Edward H. Levi and Griffin B. Bell
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Start Date
16-10-2020 3:00 PM
End Date
16-10-2020 4:15 PM
Description
Professor Patrick E. Longan
Professor Longan holds the William Augustus Bootle Chair in Ethics and Professionalism in the Practice of Law at Mercer University School of Law. He is a nationally recognized leader in the field of legal ethics and professionalism. Among other positions he holds, Professor Longan is the director of the Mercer Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism and a member of the Georgia Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism. He also serves on the State Bar of Georgia's Formal Advisory Opinion Board and its Disciplinary Rules and Procedures Committee. In 2018, the Supreme Court of Georgia appointed Professor Longan as one of twenty special masters who hear disciplinary cases involving lawyers in Georgia.
Professor Longan teaches Mercer's first year course on professionalism, the upper-level Law of Lawyering course, Jurisdiction and Judgments, and Judicial Field Placement. He received the 2005 National Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Professionalism from the Conference of Chief Justices, the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism, and the Burge Endowment for Legal Ethics. In his academic career, Professor Longan has also taught in various capacities at Stetson University, the University of Florida, Southern Methodist University, the Charleston School of Law, John Marshall (Atlanta) Law School, and Georgia State University School of Law. Before entering law teaching, Professor Longan served as a law clerk to Senior United States District Judge Bernard M. Decker in Chicago and practiced law with the firm of Andrews & Kurth in Dallas, Texas.
Professor James P. Fleissner
Jim Fleissner’s teaching and scholarship are focused on criminal law and procedure, evidence, trial and appellate practice, and legal history. Upon graduating from law school in 1986, Fleissner was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago. As a federal prosecutor, he gained extensive experience investigating and prosecuting a variety of federal cases and held several supervisory positions, last serving as Chief of the forty-five lawyer General Crimes Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Since joining the Mercer faculty in 1994, Jim Fleissner has complemented his academic activities with engagement in practice, including additional part-time service as a federal prosecutor as a Senior Associate Independent Counsel (1998-2000), Deputy Special Counsel (2004-2009), and full-time service during a leave of absence as Chief of Criminal Appeals for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago (2003-2005).
Recommended Citation
Patrick E. Longan and James P. Fleissner, Partisanship and the Attorney General of the United States: Timely Lessons from Edward Levi and Griffin Bell about Repairing a Politicized Department of Justice, 72 Mercer L. Rev. 732 (2021).
Session Four: Restoring the Credibility of the Department of Justice: Lessons from the Service of Edward H. Levi and Griffin B. Bell
Professor Patrick E. Longan
Professor Longan holds the William Augustus Bootle Chair in Ethics and Professionalism in the Practice of Law at Mercer University School of Law. He is a nationally recognized leader in the field of legal ethics and professionalism. Among other positions he holds, Professor Longan is the director of the Mercer Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism and a member of the Georgia Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism. He also serves on the State Bar of Georgia's Formal Advisory Opinion Board and its Disciplinary Rules and Procedures Committee. In 2018, the Supreme Court of Georgia appointed Professor Longan as one of twenty special masters who hear disciplinary cases involving lawyers in Georgia.
Professor Longan teaches Mercer's first year course on professionalism, the upper-level Law of Lawyering course, Jurisdiction and Judgments, and Judicial Field Placement. He received the 2005 National Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Professionalism from the Conference of Chief Justices, the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism, and the Burge Endowment for Legal Ethics. In his academic career, Professor Longan has also taught in various capacities at Stetson University, the University of Florida, Southern Methodist University, the Charleston School of Law, John Marshall (Atlanta) Law School, and Georgia State University School of Law. Before entering law teaching, Professor Longan served as a law clerk to Senior United States District Judge Bernard M. Decker in Chicago and practiced law with the firm of Andrews & Kurth in Dallas, Texas.
Professor James P. Fleissner
Jim Fleissner’s teaching and scholarship are focused on criminal law and procedure, evidence, trial and appellate practice, and legal history. Upon graduating from law school in 1986, Fleissner was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago. As a federal prosecutor, he gained extensive experience investigating and prosecuting a variety of federal cases and held several supervisory positions, last serving as Chief of the forty-five lawyer General Crimes Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Since joining the Mercer faculty in 1994, Jim Fleissner has complemented his academic activities with engagement in practice, including additional part-time service as a federal prosecutor as a Senior Associate Independent Counsel (1998-2000), Deputy Special Counsel (2004-2009), and full-time service during a leave of absence as Chief of Criminal Appeals for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago (2003-2005).
Comments
Read Professor Longan's and Professor Fleissner's article in the Mercer Law Review.
NOTE: Unfortunately only the first 40 minutes of the session were recorded.